A self-described 'spiritual guru' has sparked outrage in India after saying that the 23-year-old rape victim who died after being assaulted by six men was partly responsible for her own attack.

Asaram Bapu said that Jyoti Singh Pandey, whose fate has drawn the sympathy of the world and been treated as a national tragedy within India, was 'as guilty as her rapists'.

He added that she should have been more friendly to her attackers if she wanted to preserve her own life.

Politicians and web users have reacted with fury to the 71-year-old guru's comments.

Asaram Bapu's controversial intervention in the case comes on the day that five of Jyoti's six alleged attackers appeared in court to face charges of murder, rape and abduction.

A judge ordered that the courtroom should be closed to the public after more than 150 people tried to cram in to a room designed for around 30 during the suspects' initial hearing.

'Only five to six people are not the culprits,' Asaram Bapu said. 'The victim is as guilty as her rapists. 'She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop.'

He added: 'This could have saved her dignity and life. Can one hand clap? I don't think so.'

Leading political figures were quick to condemn the inflammatory comments, which one opposition politician called 'regrettable, deeply disturbing and painful'.

Sandeep Dikshit, from the ruling Congress party, said, 'Such comments should be condemned as much as possible,' while his colleague Rashid Alvi added that religious figures should 'give serious thought' before commenting on public affairs.

“Spiritual guru” spewing nonsense like that- has to be a liberal. Liberals also shifted the blame of 9/11 onto the U.S., saying it was “our own fault for bullying the world” and all that. Sounds like almost exactly the same thing here.

In Indian culture, especially traditional Indian culture, women are chattel. They’re property.

Don’t forget, Indians had the custom of sati (or suttee) wherein the widow of the dearly departed would immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre. While she was alive.

Because widows are considered bad luck. Women in general are considered bad luck in traditional Hindu culture. Female infanticide is widespread. And rape is a major problem, and viewed by more traditionally-minded folks (such as the guru here) as essentially crime....because women really aren’t human.

But, according to Free Trade Globalists, Indians are smarter than Americans and work harder.....so we should give these heathens all our jobs. Oh, and Free Trader Globalists will start calling us ‘racist’ if we continue mentioning raping Indians....just wait

The guy who made the statement is under fire from, GASP, Indians who don’t stand for crap like that.

Then you have your vanilla-variety American heathens and politicians claiming last year that a woman’s body shuts down during rape. Birds of the same feather...

The last thing India needs is family advice from a nation where 40+ percent of all newborns are born as bastards, to never know of the father(s) leaving women bearing those kids enough stress to kick them into post-partum depression. It’s like a plague how widespread the problem is, in America. And yet, all the sanctimony and the holier-than-thous.

He also recommended that Jews in Europe just go to the gas chambers peaceably. He advocated the non-violent thing in all situations, just as this guru blames the victim for not having done the non-violent Gandhian thing and befriending her attackers.

'Only five to six people are not the culprits,' Asaram Bapu said. 'The victim is as guilty as her rapists. 'She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop.' He added: 'This could have saved her dignity and life. Can one hand clap? I don't think so.'

I would be entertained if some relatives and friends of the girl grabbed this idiot and made a video of him being beaten while he tries begging them to stop. See how well that works for him.

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posted on 01/07/2013 2:50:50 PM PST
by PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)

“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence... I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.”

“But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness adorns a soldier...But abstinence is forgiveness only when there is the power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature....”

“I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.”

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